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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: generic package dilemma
Date: 1999/12/06
Date: 1999-12-06T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <82fifn$o20$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: wccln7cc9dw.fsf@world.std.com

In article <wccln7cc9dw.fsf@world.std.com>,
  Robert A Duff <bobduff@world.std.com> wrote:
>  The other point is that cycles are not common, and are
> usually small (length 2, often), so the link-time efficiency
> problem is probably
> not so bad.

That's still a huge amount of information that has to be passed
from the compiler to the linker (to enable it to do full call
graph analysis) I don't see it as practical to mandate this.

After all, the GNAT approach just corresponds to good
programming practice (clearly calling something from a package
at elaboration time without using Elaborate_All is plain bad
coding practice!)

In practice, I don't think anyone has found the static scheme
a big burden except in Ada 83 legacy code. We don't know of
anyone using the dynamic approach *except* in the Ada 83 legacy
code case.



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  reply	other threads:[~1999-12-06  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-11-17  0:00 generic package dilemma Riyaz Mansoor
1999-11-17  0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-11-17  0:00   ` Mats Weber
1999-11-17  0:00     ` Matthew Heaney
1999-11-18  0:00       ` Mats Weber
1999-11-18  0:00         ` Matthew Heaney
1999-11-19  0:00           ` Mats Weber
1999-11-19  0:00             ` Matthew Heaney
1999-11-19  0:00               ` Mats Weber
1999-11-22  0:00                 ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-22  0:00                   ` Mats Weber
1999-11-22  0:00                     ` Bryce Bardin
1999-11-23  0:00                     ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-22  0:00                   ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-11-23  0:00                     ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-22  0:00                   ` Robert A Duff
1999-11-23  0:00                     ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-29  0:00                       ` Robert A Duff
1999-12-01  0:00                         ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-01  0:00                       ` Robert A Duff
1999-12-02  0:00                         ` Mats Weber
1999-12-03  0:00                           ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-03  0:00                             ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-04  0:00                               ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-03  0:00                             ` Robert A Duff
1999-12-06  0:00                               ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1999-11-22  0:00                   ` Mats Weber
1999-11-22  0:00                     ` Robert A Duff
1999-11-23  0:00                       ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-01  0:00                       ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-12-01  0:00                         ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-11-19  0:00               ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-19  0:00                 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-11-22  0:00                   ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-22  0:00                     ` Matthew Heaney
1999-11-19  0:00                 ` Matthew Heaney
1999-11-20  0:00                   ` Mats Weber
1999-11-19  0:00             ` Vladimir Olensky
1999-11-18  0:00       ` Robert A Duff
1999-11-18  0:00         ` Matthew Heaney
1999-11-19  0:00       ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-18  0:00   ` Riyaz Mansoor
1999-11-19  0:00     ` Robert Dewar
1999-11-19  0:00   ` Robert Dewar
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